Word: clues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this dramatic photograph is not some giant glob of man-eating protoplasm from a science-fiction film. It is actually a hamster's kidney cell magnified 15,000 times by a scanning electron microscope. Such scientific snapshots taken by Caltech Biologist Jean-Paul Revel may offer an important clue to a mystery that has long puzzled scientists: how a living cell moves across a surface. The cell's perambulations, Revel says, are apparently made possible by a strange phenomenon called "ruffling...
...example, General Motors says it cannot divulge average wages of whites and non-whites or other information about any facet of its South African operations. Ernest Cuming, public relations officer for General Motors, summed up the dilemma which corporations in South Africa face and offered a strong clue as to their overall effect upon Africa in an interview with Washington Post Reporter Jim Hoagland...
Herrnstein shows that I.Q. scores correlate with achievement, but provides no clue as to what leads a person to perform well on an I.Q. test. Encouraging influences from family, friends and teachers might be the major factor, for all Herrnstein says...
...both. He is Peter Falk as Columbo, on the NBC series of the same name. Every fourth week, some 37 million viewers tune in avidly to watch him shamble, sniffle, fidget, mutter and gesticulate his way through a case. The fans may be slower to pounce on a clue than he is. But usually they anticipate their favorite Columbo routines-deceptively plodding, cunningly naive-and see them coming a mile off, which is half...
...magnetic, idiosyncratic performance that can carry a show. He is aided by scripts and direction that reveal a sharp feeling for the city's tough lingo, roach-infested tenements and lurid neon street scenes. Last week Kojak solved the murder of a topless go-go dancer. The key clue that allowed him to trace the dead girl: the scars from silicone treatments on her breasts...